(Untitled)

[warmlonelyrain]

Spawned by the silliest of jealousies, I mourned the fact that my parents are exceedingly normal. It may be their worst fault in my eyes. All these years they've tried so hard just to play it safe so as not to embarrass me... all leading to now and the fact that I can hardly swallow how plain they are. I feel like I deserve better. More than just "

Comments

[indubitablydyl]

I didn't even think normal existed anymore. I thought it was a myth of the 50s that had been thoroughly dispelled.

It's rare to have a relationship with your parents so honest that they'll actually "get" you. It's part of the inequitable power structure, part of the generation gap, part of etc etc.

Normal seems rather happy, to me. Without great pain. That might detract from some definitions of a desirable persona, but, really, you can do without it. It's not so bad to be normal. Hell, in many ways I strive towards it.

[warmlonelyrain]

I used them interchangeably, but I should have stuck to the one. I was thinking later about how it was so wrong of me to say "normal," and all I really needed to do was consistently use the word "plain."

Because normal's a non-issue. I'm perfectly okay with how abnormal or non-existent that idea is both I and my parents are. Plain is a different story.